Our Lord Jesus Christ enters Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
We carry palm branches as a tribute of unending joy, before Christ, victorious over death; also as a symbol of our wavering fickleness, betraying Christ unto His Death. Jesus is our “example;” let us never lose sight of the eternal joy of “sharing in His Resurrection” when with Him we now “suffer on a cross” (Prayer). In glorious language we read how the Son of God became the “slave” of man; how “He humbled himself” and is now our pledge “in the glory of God the Father” (Epistle).
As Christ adhered to the Father, without doubt so must we despite the seeming “prosperity of the sinner” (Gradual).
The long Gospel enables us, as it were, to be eyewitnesses of Christ’s Passion and Death, revealing His Love “unto the end” on Calvary.
This Sunday: The liturgy of this Sunday is divided as follows:
(1) Blessing of Palms;
(2) Distribution of Palms to clergy and people;
(3) Reading of the Gospel account of Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem;
(4) Procession of clergy and people with blessed palms;
(5) Holy Mass.
As Christ adhered to the Father, without doubt so must we despite the seeming “prosperity of the sinner” (Gradual).
The long Gospel enables us, as it were, to be eyewitnesses of Christ’s Passion and Death, revealing His Love “unto the end” on Calvary.
This Sunday: The liturgy of this Sunday is divided as follows:
(1) Blessing of Palms;
(2) Distribution of Palms to clergy and people;
(3) Reading of the Gospel account of Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem;
(4) Procession of clergy and people with blessed palms;
(5) Holy Mass.
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